This hard right carnage of National-ACT-NZF should shame us all

We should all be deeply ashamed of what we have mutated into.

We vomited up this hateful, malicious and spiteful Government because we were incandescent with rage that Jacinda had the temerity to save 20 000 from Covid and we repaid her with this vile selfish Government who take from the poor to give to the rich.

This is who we is now, this is what we have become.

TDB warned you that this was a hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government when The Democracy Project was attempting to pretend it was moderate.

TDB warned you that the middle class woke activists had alienated more voters than they had attracted and that the Left needed to focus on universals rather than pure temple woke dogma.

TDB warned you that ACT, NZF and National would implement a romper stomper policy platform that would destroy the common good.

Well – looks like TDB was right!

Public sector cuts: Oranga Tamariki to focus on ‘core purpose’, hundreds of jobs set to go

Public sector cuts: 500-plus Ministry of Education jobs on line in cost-saving proposal, union says

Over 1000 job losses at schools and welfare for damaged children, can’t wait to see how the Democracy Project will justify that as moderate.

Remember, we are literally taking out of the mouths of hungry children so National/ACT/NZF can give $2.9billion in tax breaks to the richest landlords, a policy MSD warns will see up to 13 000 children pushed into poverty…

Officials warn up to 13,000 children will be pushed into poverty as a result of benefit changes

…any time your policy is pushing 13000 children into poverty, you should probs not be implementing it!

Social policy should lift children out of poverty, not push 13000 into it!

This hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government has attacked renters, workers, Māori, Beneficiaries, the disabled and the environment while abusing democratic due process and cutting deals for their donor class.

We have been tricked into culture wars so that the richest continue to enrich their interests at the cost of everyone else.

We are a petty, small, easily tricked people with a low imagination horizon.

Fixated on cow udders, Rugby and undiagnosed alcoholism where the only emotion is greed, anger and jealousy.

We have all the cultural maturity of a can of day old coke cola.

The manner in which social media school chambers have radicalised voters into Qanon militia speaks to a deeper wound and is reminiscent of the way global Muslim youth were radicalised in the 1990s thanks to Jihadist recruitment videos on Youtube.

Citizens should feel angry and cynical at a system that is rigged in favour of the rich!

That shouldn’t shock or surprise us, that is the reality!

The danger now is the culture war extremism that social media hate algorithms have manufactured and how the Political Right will manipulate those culture war revenge fantasies to get their donors interests legislated into policy.

The Political Left still have no response to this other than allow their middle class identity politics activists to continue to alienate voters and provide the right with culture war ammunition.

The solution to the Political Left is sitting right in front of their noses!

We are a fair people, what National, ACT and NZFirst have all agreed to is extreme and nasty.

Kiwis aren’t extreme or nasty. Some are, they vote ACT and NZ First, but National voters will be aghast at what they’ve seen so far.

This is the time for the political Left to walk away from woke pure temple politics and embrace Broadchurch class solidarity.

Our under funded social infrastructure, our ‘me first’ consumerism, our 30 years of neoliberal mythology, our disconnection from one another, our untreated pain, our lack of hope from grinding poverty in a first world country, our damaged masculinity, the intergenerational consequences of colonialism, our unspoken rage culture, our inability to express emotion beyond anger – all of this demands questions we don’t want to hear as a society.

The Right look for recruits, the Left look for traitors.

If we don’t provide people with Hope that there is a better way of being for us all, if we don’t provide vision that actually addresses the material well being of our voters, if we aren’t prepared to debate the expansion of State Capacity by taxing the megawealthy and funding the climate change adaptation,  if we don’t do all that, this hard right racist Government will win again.

 

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